Hi analysts!⭐️
Recently you may read this post where you can find tips to improve stakeholder engagement.
Today I have the article "Navigating Client Vision: A Guide to Addressing Misconceptions".
In the realm of business analysis, effective communication plays a paramount role in ensuring project success. The relationship between a business analyst and a client is built on trust and collaboration. While clients bring their valuable insights and expectations, misunderstandings can arise. It's essential to recognize that these misconceptions aren't indicative of failure, but rather opportunities for productive dialogue. However, there are instances when a client's vision doesn't entirely align with the project's objectives. In this article, we will explore strategies for delicately addressing situations where a client's perspective needs refinement.
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Recently you may read this post where you can find tips to improve stakeholder engagement.
Today I have the article "Navigating Client Vision: A Guide to Addressing Misconceptions".
In the realm of business analysis, effective communication plays a paramount role in ensuring project success. The relationship between a business analyst and a client is built on trust and collaboration. While clients bring their valuable insights and expectations, misunderstandings can arise. It's essential to recognize that these misconceptions aren't indicative of failure, but rather opportunities for productive dialogue. However, there are instances when a client's vision doesn't entirely align with the project's objectives. In this article, we will explore strategies for delicately addressing situations where a client's perspective needs refinement.
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Hi, analysts! ⭐️
How about a cool meeting in Warsaw to enhance your capacities? Sounds appealing, we know, so the details are below!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/EJHzsArMm9jQWj5e9
(the number of seats is limited)
⏰19.10.2023 at 18:30 (CET)
📍Place: Andersen Office Warsaw – Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: Russian
💡Topic: Empowering IT Business Analysts: Maximizing the Impact of Business Intelligence Tools for Informed Decision-Making
Together with the speaker, Valentin Kostin, we’ll discuss what BI is and what it’s needed for, BI platform architecture, databases, the general concept of NoSQL, Big Data, and NewSQL, how BI facilitates the work of Business Analysts, and more!
Useful knowledge, networking, snacks, and the gorgeous view from the Warsaw office are also in the program. Register and join us 😊 See you!
How about a cool meeting in Warsaw to enhance your capacities? Sounds appealing, we know, so the details are below!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/EJHzsArMm9jQWj5e9
(the number of seats is limited)
⏰19.10.2023 at 18:30 (CET)
📍Place: Andersen Office Warsaw – Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: Russian
💡Topic: Empowering IT Business Analysts: Maximizing the Impact of Business Intelligence Tools for Informed Decision-Making
Together with the speaker, Valentin Kostin, we’ll discuss what BI is and what it’s needed for, BI platform architecture, databases, the general concept of NoSQL, Big Data, and NewSQL, how BI facilitates the work of Business Analysts, and more!
Useful knowledge, networking, snacks, and the gorgeous view from the Warsaw office are also in the program. Register and join us 😊 See you!
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Hi, analysts! ⭐️
Today I have a nice article "5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec".
Today I have a nice article "5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec".
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5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec
There is no easy path. The elevator is broken and you need to take the stairs and climb fast.
Krakow iOS developers, we invite you to the Async/Await Workshop!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/XF9gEwqA2ndosA5r9
(the number of seats is limited).
Together with Maksym Teslia, iOS Developer at Andersen, we will delve into the Async/Await mechanism in Swift.
⏰12.10.2023 at 18:00 (CET)
📍Place: Aleja Pokoju 18B, building 3, 31-564, Kraków, 4th floor
🤓 An online stream will also be available, you will receive the link after registration.
Language: English
We’ll discuss:
💡 how Async/Await can be used,
💡 and why it’s the first among other multithreading approaches in 2023.
We promise it’s going to be mega-useful! See you!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/XF9gEwqA2ndosA5r9
(the number of seats is limited).
Together with Maksym Teslia, iOS Developer at Andersen, we will delve into the Async/Await mechanism in Swift.
⏰12.10.2023 at 18:00 (CET)
📍Place: Aleja Pokoju 18B, building 3, 31-564, Kraków, 4th floor
🤓 An online stream will also be available, you will receive the link after registration.
Language: English
We’ll discuss:
💡 how Async/Await can be used,
💡 and why it’s the first among other multithreading approaches in 2023.
We promise it’s going to be mega-useful! See you!
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Do you often skip meetups thinking they are only intended for Senior specialists? Java enthusiasts, you can attend our new Cozy Talk – Streaming Processing for Dummies – whatever your level is. The details are below!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/kSPKNsW3e6SBdTii8
(the number of seats is limited)
⏰18.10.2023 at 18:00 (CET)
📍Place: Andersen Office Budapest – Árbóc utca 1-3, HUB 2-3, 5th floor
Language: English
💡Topic: Streaming Processing for Dummies
Alexandr Stepurko, Senior Software Engineer, has prepared a solid plan for this event:
❓Introduction to streaming processing
❓Why streaming processing matters
❓Key concepts in streaming processing
❓Streaming processing frameworks
❓Use cases of streaming processing
❓Streaming processing in action
Don't miss this excellent event for gaining new knowledge and networking! And don’t forget to register 👉 https://forms.gle/kSPKNsW3e6SBdTii8
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/kSPKNsW3e6SBdTii8
(the number of seats is limited)
⏰18.10.2023 at 18:00 (CET)
📍Place: Andersen Office Budapest – Árbóc utca 1-3, HUB 2-3, 5th floor
Language: English
💡Topic: Streaming Processing for Dummies
Alexandr Stepurko, Senior Software Engineer, has prepared a solid plan for this event:
❓Introduction to streaming processing
❓Why streaming processing matters
❓Key concepts in streaming processing
❓Streaming processing frameworks
❓Use cases of streaming processing
❓Streaming processing in action
Don't miss this excellent event for gaining new knowledge and networking! And don’t forget to register 👉 https://forms.gle/kSPKNsW3e6SBdTii8
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iOS and Android developers, it’s going to be hot in Warsaw soon! We invite you to Cozy Talks with Andersen, devoted to reactive programming in mobile app development!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/hGvgpf2sxsbEpkNj8
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰26.10.2023 18:00 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw: Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: English
Format: Open mic
Together we will discuss:
💡What is reactive programming?
💡What are its advantages and basics?
💡RxJava or Flow? RxSwift, Combine, PromiseKit, or async/await? Which to choose?
💡Why are they so useful for Android and iOS development? Are they still relevant, or are there better solutions?
We can answer all these questions together and exchange experiences in the first Mobile Open Mic. Add the event to your calendar – it’s going to be cool!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/hGvgpf2sxsbEpkNj8
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰26.10.2023 18:00 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw: Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: English
Format: Open mic
Together we will discuss:
💡What is reactive programming?
💡What are its advantages and basics?
💡RxJava or Flow? RxSwift, Combine, PromiseKit, or async/await? Which to choose?
💡Why are they so useful for Android and iOS development? Are they still relevant, or are there better solutions?
We can answer all these questions together and exchange experiences in the first Mobile Open Mic. Add the event to your calendar – it’s going to be cool!
Hey Siri, what’s DevOps, and how to select a DevOps engineer for a project?
Come to Cozy Talks with Andersen on October 30, where DevOps Engineer Vladimir Klybik will tell us about DevOps in lay terms so that you can quickly find the right specialists for your project/task and effectively interact with them.
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/bGixiCMAn7Exs1NA7
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰30.10.2023 18:30 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw – Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: Russian
The meetup will be especially useful for project and resource managers, recruiters, and those who work with DevOps engineers on projects.
Vladimir will both answer four pivotal questions:
❔Who really are those whom we call DevOps engineers?
❔How to search for DevOps engineers for a project/task?
❔How to interview DevOps engineers?
❔How to effectively onboard them?
…and share his life hacks for a fruitful cooperation.
See you on October 30! Don’t forget to register 👉 https://forms.gle/bGixiCMAn7Exs1NA7
Come to Cozy Talks with Andersen on October 30, where DevOps Engineer Vladimir Klybik will tell us about DevOps in lay terms so that you can quickly find the right specialists for your project/task and effectively interact with them.
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/bGixiCMAn7Exs1NA7
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰30.10.2023 18:30 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw – Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
Language: Russian
The meetup will be especially useful for project and resource managers, recruiters, and those who work with DevOps engineers on projects.
Vladimir will both answer four pivotal questions:
❔Who really are those whom we call DevOps engineers?
❔How to search for DevOps engineers for a project/task?
❔How to interview DevOps engineers?
❔How to effectively onboard them?
…and share his life hacks for a fruitful cooperation.
See you on October 30! Don’t forget to register 👉 https://forms.gle/bGixiCMAn7Exs1NA7
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QA community, don’t miss the new Cozy Talk with Andersen! On November 8, QA Engineer Palina Patsankova will deliver her speech – Postman: The Path from Beginner to Professional – both offline in the Minsk office and online.
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/V4jMTqQ79oGwTWDw6
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰08.11.2024 at 18:30 (GMT+3)
📍Place: Royal Plaza, Pobediteley Avenue 7а, 24 floor, Minsk
🔗 Online participation is available
Language: Russian
Postman is the most popular tool for API testing, offering a large number of capabilities. Nevertheless, few know how to leverage these capabilities and make life easier for QA specialists. At this event, Palina will show and explain everything related to Postman, from A to...automation.
The following questions will be discussed in detail:
📌API testing: how, what for, and using what?
📌Postman Collections: how to create, how to fill in, and how to maintain?
📌Pre-request noscripts: what are they, what for, how to write, and what variants exist?
📌Tests: what to check, and how to write?
Join us!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/V4jMTqQ79oGwTWDw6
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰08.11.2024 at 18:30 (GMT+3)
📍Place: Royal Plaza, Pobediteley Avenue 7а, 24 floor, Minsk
🔗 Online participation is available
Language: Russian
Postman is the most popular tool for API testing, offering a large number of capabilities. Nevertheless, few know how to leverage these capabilities and make life easier for QA specialists. At this event, Palina will show and explain everything related to Postman, from A to...automation.
The following questions will be discussed in detail:
📌API testing: how, what for, and using what?
📌Postman Collections: how to create, how to fill in, and how to maintain?
📌Pre-request noscripts: what are they, what for, how to write, and what variants exist?
📌Tests: what to check, and how to write?
Join us!
Soon, Andersen is going to have a live stream with... Maria Boyarko, Head of BA & SA Department
We'll talk about the variety of analysts, career development (both horizontal and vertical), certification of specialists, our community, and many other topics!
If you've seen something interesting for yourself in the list, join us on:
🗓November 1 at 19:00 (GMT +3)
📍 account - @andersencompany
Language: Russian
There will also be a cool giveaway and then the opportunity to receive a useful file on BA, so set reminders! See you✌️
We'll talk about the variety of analysts, career development (both horizontal and vertical), certification of specialists, our community, and many other topics!
If you've seen something interesting for yourself in the list, join us on:
🗓November 1 at 19:00 (GMT +3)
📍 account - @andersencompany
Language: Russian
There will also be a cool giveaway and then the opportunity to receive a useful file on BA, so set reminders! See you✌️
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Hi analysts!⭐️
Let's talk about "Big picture".
Seeing the “Big Picture” is one of the issues that Business Analysts have difficulty with most of the time. Let’s say you are describing one functionality that is a part of the big main flow, but since functional decomposition has already been made and one that you describe is only a small part of the whole. I’ve had this issue in earlier stages of my career and sometimes I still struggle with it. It looks like this scenario: “You are making a tire for a car, but you don’t know what car is being made”. This situation is very common.
☝️Here are some tips that help to see the Big Picture
Let's talk about "Big picture".
Seeing the “Big Picture” is one of the issues that Business Analysts have difficulty with most of the time. Let’s say you are describing one functionality that is a part of the big main flow, but since functional decomposition has already been made and one that you describe is only a small part of the whole. I’ve had this issue in earlier stages of my career and sometimes I still struggle with it. It looks like this scenario: “You are making a tire for a car, but you don’t know what car is being made”. This situation is very common.
☝️Here are some tips that help to see the Big Picture
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Hi analysts! ⭐️
Creating a new product it is a common approach to focus on a user. Who is the target audience? What are their needs? And how we can satisfy these needs? - These are probably the most frequently asked questions when discovering the project. Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Professor, challenged this approach in his book "Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice" and came up with his theory on where to start.
🔶What is JTBD?
Jobs-to-be-Done is a framework which incomposses product vision and its breakdown. As opposed to the well-known user-oriented approach which in business analysis is typically delivered via a User Story format, Jobs-to-be-Done focuses on on the final goal of a user (on a job that has to be done).
🔶How JTBD look like?
The JTBD template is pretty similar to User Story. However instead of who is performing an action, condition is indicated.
So, the template for JTBD is as follows:
When condition, I want desire, so that result.
Example: When commuting, I want to watch short videos, so that to kill time and have fun on the move.
Below the Job Title typically goes acceptance criteria, just the same as with US.
🔶When JTBD is useful
As in JTBD concept context matters rather than a user, it is useful in the cases when the target audience is not clear or is broad. In contrast, User Stories fit well when the audience is identified and is not wanted to become bigger.
🔶How to prioritize JTBD
There are several ways to define which jobs are more critical, and which less. Here are the most commonly used:
🔸Directly ask your audience which jobs from their perspectives are more valuable. On the one hand, straight communication with the customer is a good idea, instead of assumptions you will have a real statement. On the other hand, in case you have several customers to contact, they may have a different opinion on these issues. And prioritization in this way will become even more complicated.
🔸The second way is to figure out how satisfied your customers are with the current solution. The more the dissatisfaction is, the easier it can shift from the old solution to your product.
🔸And one more way is to prioritize the jobs based on the resources that the team has. The easier for the development team to implement the job, the higher its priority.
❓Do you have experience with JTBD?
Creating a new product it is a common approach to focus on a user. Who is the target audience? What are their needs? And how we can satisfy these needs? - These are probably the most frequently asked questions when discovering the project. Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Professor, challenged this approach in his book "Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice" and came up with his theory on where to start.
🔶What is JTBD?
Jobs-to-be-Done is a framework which incomposses product vision and its breakdown. As opposed to the well-known user-oriented approach which in business analysis is typically delivered via a User Story format, Jobs-to-be-Done focuses on on the final goal of a user (on a job that has to be done).
🔶How JTBD look like?
The JTBD template is pretty similar to User Story. However instead of who is performing an action, condition is indicated.
So, the template for JTBD is as follows:
When condition, I want desire, so that result.
Example: When commuting, I want to watch short videos, so that to kill time and have fun on the move.
Below the Job Title typically goes acceptance criteria, just the same as with US.
🔶When JTBD is useful
As in JTBD concept context matters rather than a user, it is useful in the cases when the target audience is not clear or is broad. In contrast, User Stories fit well when the audience is identified and is not wanted to become bigger.
🔶How to prioritize JTBD
There are several ways to define which jobs are more critical, and which less. Here are the most commonly used:
🔸Directly ask your audience which jobs from their perspectives are more valuable. On the one hand, straight communication with the customer is a good idea, instead of assumptions you will have a real statement. On the other hand, in case you have several customers to contact, they may have a different opinion on these issues. And prioritization in this way will become even more complicated.
🔸The second way is to figure out how satisfied your customers are with the current solution. The more the dissatisfaction is, the easier it can shift from the old solution to your product.
🔸And one more way is to prioritize the jobs based on the resources that the team has. The easier for the development team to implement the job, the higher its priority.
❓Do you have experience with JTBD?
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Come to our meetup – PM Community. Cozy Talks with Andersen – on the 30th of November to master the art of giving and processing feedback.
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/9GNRFYb9hoGd8KYr5
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰30.11.2023 18:30 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw: Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor
Language: English
The culture of feedback has become prevalent in our society. A person’s work efficiency is assessed on its basis, and this often has a great impact on their career trajectory, performance on projects, self-esteem, and relationships with others. Therefore, it is essential to study this area, learning what hinders us from giving constructive feedback and how to formulate it correctly.
Project Manager Tatsiana Marshyna will talk about the importance of feedback and share what methods can be used to improve the quality of feedback. The meetup will be useful for Project, HR, and Resource Managers, as well as other professionals working with people.
We’re looking forward to seeing you!
👇FREE, after registration👇
https://forms.gle/9GNRFYb9hoGd8KYr5
(the number of seats is limited).
⏰30.11.2023 18:30 CET
📍Andersen Office Warsaw: Rondo Daszyńskiego 1, 23 floor
Language: English
The culture of feedback has become prevalent in our society. A person’s work efficiency is assessed on its basis, and this often has a great impact on their career trajectory, performance on projects, self-esteem, and relationships with others. Therefore, it is essential to study this area, learning what hinders us from giving constructive feedback and how to formulate it correctly.
Project Manager Tatsiana Marshyna will talk about the importance of feedback and share what methods can be used to improve the quality of feedback. The meetup will be useful for Project, HR, and Resource Managers, as well as other professionals working with people.
We’re looking forward to seeing you!